Gaddafi caught – NTC official

Tripoli – Deposed Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi was captured and wounded near his hometown of Sirte at dawn today as he tried to flee in a convoy which NATO warplanes attacked, National Transitional Council official Abdel Majid has said.

The senior NTC military official told Reuters by telephone that the head of Gaddafi’s armed forces Abu Bakr Younus Jabr had been killed during the capture of the Libyan ex-leader.

A Nato official said they were checking reports of Gaddafi’s capture.

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